Technorati ranking as of today and yesterday
This ranking of the the T-List (Travel related Blogs) is according to the Technorati ranking as of today and yesterday. I know, a technorati ranking is not without errors and not without judgment of the Technorati people (and myself). Moreover. Not every blog is registered with Technorati. One person with a dot travel domain simply gets no technorati ranking whatever he tries. Kind of strange! You see the January rating in the last column. This time I have introduced a column with the number of Backlinks according to Technorati to enable finetuning a bit. It also helps to decide quickly to keep a blog in the list or not.

A horror Job
The whole operation is a kind of Horror Job. Therefore Halloween seemed an apt day to finish it and publish it.
First I collect the data in a Quattro Pro spreadsheet and match them with their corresponding Technorati ranking. The rating is put in manually. Then i cut and paste the spreadsheet into an HTM format. I copy and paste that into my Dreamweaver editor. In dreamweaver I can sort. If I sort in my spreadsheets I lose my carefully collected links….An excel spreadsheet won’t do. If readers know of a simpler method. Please let me know!.

Alexa ranking better?
I have been trying to combine this in one list with the corresponding Alexa ranking. But after filling in an Alexa ranking for many blogs that have rankings in the millions manually, I decided to leave it out. I may, or may not try to set up a smaller Alexa ranking for the top 100 or top 50 Travel Blogs. The funny thing is that an Alexa ranking may take into account the fact that a blog in incorporated into a larger multichannel site or portal and gets the ranking from other stuff than from merely their blogging activity. So I’m not sure about that. So I’m not so sure about the Alexa ranking.

Possibly incomplete and with errors
The list may not be without errors. I have simply forgotten people. Don’t hesitate to point me to your findings. I deleted some 30 Blogs from the January list. They simply disappeared from the radar or were sadly abandoned. Some Bloggers closed simply because they are afraid to divulge too many trade secrets…..

Why so many?
My main reason for keeping it long and rich, is to give new starters a chance to get a bit of visibility and nudge to go on with their work. Blogging about travel is a tedious, long hours behind your computer and a difficult-to-maintain job. It definitely doesn’t bring you a lot of money, but if you are passionate about it, like I am and a lot of fellow Bloggers are, you will be rewarded with a slowly, but gradually growing network of fellow travel bloggers. It can bring you a lot of fun. Also the Bloggers on this list can give you a lot of inspiration how to do things. Therefor, with pleasure I present now 300 Travel Bloggers, the longest list to date:

@ Linda
Sure, no problem, but I really don’t know if I and when I will (want to) find the time again to do this:-)
@ Barbara
You were on the list already. As you see you have a ranking now with Technorati. Although it is still sometimes flaky….And yes I went back to Misty again….but if you wish you can use one of the presently 3 other themes if you press one of them see the label Switch Theme. At least you now have an answer to your e-mail question and I am glad I have solved the myriad problems I had with this blog:-).

Great and interesting list. Thanks for compiling it. Definitely interesting to see new bloggers as well as some regulars I read – and keeps up my interest of sharing little corners of the world that I find.

HH-
Thanks for the list.
I’m astounded I’m on this at all. Would you offer some assistance in helping me/us figure out how to improve technorati ratings? I’ve signed up with them but that’s about it. Is there something else I/we should be doing?
I get all these nice comments when people finally land on my blog. It would be great if I could figure out how to get it in front of more people. Become a millionaire, retire, yadda, yadda….
Thanks again,
boldlygosolo.com

Hi there,
That does sound like a nasty manual process. Seems to me like you need two short scripts: one to scrape the rankings from technorati and a second to parse the data results and spit out an html file.
If you stored the data in excel, you could use something a simple as vbscript to do at least the second task for you – just a suggestion.

Guido
Thanks for doing the ranking. Am thrilled to find the BOOT in the top 100. I am interested to hear your thoughts on the classification of the BOOT as being on the subject of “Air Travel”. I try in the blog to cover the a variety of commercial aspects around the business of online travel including OTAs and category focused intermediaries, suppliers (air and hotel) and general online travel industry trends.

@ Ellen
I believe the best thing you can do is going on doing what you are doing. It’s all a matter of time. For some time I had the idea that I should get more focus on this blog…then I abandoned that idea again and see now I was right…just be your self and you will attract the audience that suits you best. Maybe some syndication here and there…but there are pros and cons. This blog is syndicated on Tips of the T-list….that picked this post up so fast that the technorati back links to various blogs of the list are from Tips and not from me. This maybe proves the right of the cons…but I have to admit that in the translation between the spreadsheet and the htm there was an error code occurring that I had to weed out mannually as soon as I had pushed the “Publish” button.

@ Beth
Thank you for pointing me to vb script. I’ll have a look into it.

@Tim
Not only in mileage you are on the top:-) Maybe from that I got the idea of Air Travel. I don’t know anymore. The classification process was and is arbitrary. I would welcome any better suggestion.

@ Hotelmarketing Blog
I am glad the language barrier that I see between the English language blogs and the German Language blogs on the one hand and the Spanish language blogs on the other hand ( not to forget the French), didn’t prevent you from posting about the list.

Okay, I have to ask. If travelpod as a whole site is considered a blog, then can we please have travellerspoint added to the list too? I realize this is probably due to technorati not following their own classification of blog, but argh, how did they get on the t-list? Especially looking at their home page with nofollow highlighting switched on seems to indicate they’re not really about blogging anymore 😉 Guys like bootsnall would surely also love to see all their hundreds/thousands of blogs lumped into one and given weighting together.

Well done Guido on painstaking process it seems. The new Travo blog is included now, as far as Technorati is concerned, within the main Travo site, so you can use this link as your guide perhaps.

If you’re allowing travelpod to aggregate all their links for a myriad of blogs into one listing, then you can for us as well eh? 🙂

In addition i wouldn’t have labelled us as a ‘marketing’ blog, sorry.

We are a good, er, old fashioned media company blogging away like the rest of you.

Also, one of the quirks of a list like this is that you are reliant on a system like Technorati, when we all know there are hundreds of good blogs out there where, for whatever reason, their owners have decided not to list on Technorati.

Bainbridge’s Musings on Travel Ecommerce is an obvious one.

Keep us the good work, Guido. See you in Hell (sorry, ExCel, for World Travel Market). 🙂

First I had to dig up your comment up from under my askimet spam filter (-:

You can find the new Travolution Blog on place 291. In the next version the old one will be discarded.

I am the first one to admit the technorati measuring is fallible. The Technorati site itself is unstable as on one moment they give 0 backlinks and 0 authority and the next moment – like with the new Travolution Blog – they give backlinks 836 and authority 78…But I can’t see anything better at the moment. One item speaks in their favor and that is that they only measure 185 days of backlinks. So the inactive blogs disappear gradually.

Now how would you describe your blog in one word apart from Media?

And poor Alex. I have to apology, because I simply forgot about him like Everything Everywhere…and maybe many others.

I agree with your assessment about Alexa not being the best indicator. By their own admission, any ranking over 100K is a rough estimate, and the higher the ranking the less accurate it becomes. So a 7 Million blog could have tons of traffic, but just hasn’t been picked up by Alexa.

I’m a SEO professional who works with many travel-based clients, and I question Technorati to compile your list of top 300 blogs. Technorati’s rankings are based on links, but do not reflect traffic or influence. Links are definitely not the same as traffic or influence. There’s a saying in the SEO biz that many MANY links go unclicked.

As someone who is well acquainted with the online travel scene, I immediately noticed that several notable influential blogs have a much larger following than the blogs in your top 20. The Perrin Post, for example, and Arthur Frommer’s blog, are far more influential than either Delicious Baby or Island Life. And surely their traffic stats are much, much higher too, so how could this list possibly make sense to anyone? Perhaps they are undervalued by Technorati because they are part of larger sites (Concierge and Frommers, respectively). So what about all the other blogs contained within larger sites? They are presumably undervalued as well by Technorati and thus on your list.

I suppose I’m a skeptic and find lists quite arbitrary, and as a SEO professional I know how flawed Technorati is as an indicator of popularity. Unless you have access to the traffic reports, which you obviously do not, then I’m afraid I don’t see how this is a true reading of what’s really “the top” of the travel blog field.

If you Google phrases like “blog travel deals,” “blog family travel,” “blog ski vacations,” “blog travel news,” and so on, you’ll find many top travel blogs that have been left out of your list. Their high Google ranking tells you they are popular–and often more popular than those at the top of this list.

I’ve seen lists from other niches that use a combination of Alexa, Technorati, Page Rank and Complete.com. RSS subscribers would also be good, but that information isn’t available for every site.

I also think you should separate corporate sites and independent sites. They are really in different classes. You could make a list with National Geographic, Conde Nast, Discovery Channel and Expedia, but it really won’t say much.

Great list – Congratulations to everyone who made it! Inviting bloggers and travelers (…and photographers, film makers, pet lovers and RVers!) to come visit, subscribe and just mosey around at http://Traveling12Feet.com

Well Good Golly Miss Molly! I can’t really believe that my little blog made this list! Awesome. I am now inspired to keep going. What could be better to write about than travel!https://travelfromseattle.wordpress.com/